Swedish actor, multi instrumentalist, singer and songwriter. Ulrik Munther was born on February 18th, 1994 and raised in Kungsbacka, Halland County just South of Gothenburg. He started very young playing in different teenage rock bands around Kungsbacka. After playing rock covers for some time, he started writing his own material and toured extensively promoting his YouTube songs. He also appeared on a number of Swedish television shows. At age 15, he took part in Lilla Melodifestivalen, a natio...
Swedish actor, multi instrumentalist, singer and songwriter. Ulrik Munther was born on February 18th, 1994 and raised in Kungsbacka, Halland County just South of Gothenburg. He started very young playing in different teenage rock bands around Kungsbacka. After playing rock covers for some time, he started writing his own material and toured extensively promoting his YouTube songs. He also appeared on a number of Swedish television shows. At age 15, he took part in Lilla Melodifestivalen, a national Swedish competition for young singers to qualify to the MGP Nordic (Melodi Grand Prix Nordic) competition with his own song "En vanlig dag" (An Ordinary Day). After winning the Swedish contest, he went on to win the title at the MGP Nordic competition in which participants from Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland competed.
After 1 year from winning the MGP Nordic title, he took part in Metro Music Challenge again with his own composition "Life" coming second. Producer Johan Åberg seeing the potential started a musical cooperation. After the song "Boys Don't Cry" was leaked on the Internet, a number of international record company affiliates contacted him with Universal Records Sweden eventually signing him in September 2010. He toured the United States, Britain and Continental Europe. He is also well known for his cover of Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" after Perez Hilton posted the video on her website. Munther has also participated in SVT's Bobster program entitled Humorgalan as part of charity for UNICEF in May 2010. There he sang "My Generation" together with Peter Johansson, Rock-Olga and others. Ulrik has also been involved in SVTB's Sommarlov hosted by Malin Olsson. He has also appeared in Allsång på Skansen and Lotta på Liseberg festivals in Summer 2011.
On 24 August 2011, he released his self-titled debut album Ulrik Munther that went straight to #1 on the Swedish Album Charts on its week of release. The album was recorded in Stockholm, and part in his own home. He appears with Caroline Costa in a single entitled "Je t'ai menti" which is the French version of "Kill for Lies". Released on 19 December 2011, it entered the French Singles Chart in February 2012. On 21 December 2012, the music video for his single "San Francisco Says Hello" came out on YouTube which was filmed in San Francisco earlier that the month. It also received more attention when Perez Hilton posted it on his Twitter page three weeks later.
In 2012, Ulrik Munther participated in the second semifinal of Melodifestivalen 2012 with the song "Soldiers". He was among the two winners of the night, managing to get to the contest's final, that took place on 10 March 2012 at the Globe Arena in Stockholm. Loreen with her song "Euphoria" won not only the Melodifestivalen but the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 as well. Munther and "Soldiers" finished 3rd overall in the Melodifestivalen behind Loreen and runner-up Danny Saucedo.
In 2013, Ulrik Munther participated in the 4th semi-final Melodifestivalen 2013 on 23 February 2013 in Malmö, Sweden singing the song "Tell the World I'm Here" co-written by Munther with songwriters Thomas G:son and Peter Boström. Munther again finished 3rd overall in the Melodifestivalen behind Robin Stjernberg and Yohio.
On October 27, 2014 released Ulrik the single "I do not know how to do." A song that arose in cooperation with Jonas Gardell. A music video was launched at the same time. He also assisted in the gala "Together for cancer," and performed his single "I do not know how to do" the same day.
In 2015 he won the Swedish Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in the movie ''The Here After'' (Efterskalv). Magnus Van Horn’s movie (Poland/Sweden/France) follows the fate of troubled 17-year-old John (Ulrik Munther) after he is released from a detention facility into the custody of his father in a rural Swedish community that cannot forgive his terrible crime. It’s an absorbing study of three generations of male rage and emotional disconnection.
In 2016 Ulrik is actively involved in the aid project 'SOS Barnbyar Sverige' (SOS Children's Villages Sweden). 'En resa för livet' (A Journey of Life) is a musical television documentary series in which viewers follow four Swedish songwriters and artists dedicated their life's journey into one of the world's poor areas. Andreas Carlsson, Lotta Engberg, Ulrik Munther and Kristin Amparo traveled to Rustenburg in South Africa. For two weeks, they met children living in vulnerable environments whilst actively participated in the SOS Children's Village work.
Ulrik Munther released together with friends the single 'Until We Meet Again' in January 2016. 'Dig A Little Deeper', Ulrik's solo single, was out at the same time. Artists and distributor Sony Music will donate their royalties and proceeds to SOS Children's Villages. 'En resa för livet' was sent in spring 2016 by Swedish TV4.
In 2018, Ulrik ended his record label and manager, moved from Stockholm to Gothenburg to write, produce and release his music on his own. A bold and courageous decision but something that was crucial to Ulrik feeling happy and creatively satisfied.
The first hit that was independent was the single Before which was released in March 2018. The song has proven to be a statement that Ulrik manages to stand on his own legs and that as an artist you can succeed even without major record label giants flapping your neck.
Before was followed up in April by the EP Are you alright? and a smaller tour of the same name was made in Sweden and Norway. Last summer, some gigs were made, including a successful one at the Frizon Festival with his eminent band under the leadership of the chaplain Isak Nygren.
Ulrik does a few gigs this summer and chose GF as one of them. We are very happy about this. Welcome to the Gulbrannafestivalen, Ulrik Munther!
Complete released works (2009 - 2016)
Singles En vanlig dag - 2009 (Melodi Grand Prix Nordic junior singing competition) Life - 2009 Boys Don't Cry - 2010 Born This Way (Lady Gaga cover) - 2011 Moments Ago - 2011 Sticks And Stones - 2011 Je t'ai menti (Kill For Lies) feat. Caroline Costa - 2011 The Box - 2011 Soldiers - 2012 (Melodi Grand Prix Nordic junior singing competition) Fool - 2012 San Francisco Says Hello (T&M: Martin Ekman/Ulrik Munther) - 2012 Tell the World I'm Here - 2013 Requiem - 2013 Jag vet inte hur man gör - 2014 Nån gång - 2015 Dig A Little Deeper - 2016 (SOS Barnbyar Sverige: En resa för livet) Until We Meet Again - 2016 (SOS Barnbyar) feat. Andreas Carlsson, Kristin Amparo and Lotta Engberg Before - 2018 Say Goodbye - 2018
Albums Ulrik Munther (2012) Rooftop (2013) Allt jag ville säga (2015) Are You Alright? EP (2018) Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
